Off-duty firefighter discovers house fire

July 5, 2009 7:34:30 AM PDT

ATASCOCITA, TX --

An off-duty Atascocita firefighter Sunday morning discovered a house on fire in northeast Harris County. We're told the firefighter lives a couple of streets away and smelled the smoke. He went to investigate and called firefighters after seeing the flames.

Huffman, Porter and Houston firefighters had to help Atascocita firefighters put out the two-alarm blaze. No one was home at the time and the cause of the fire is under investigation.